Christmas Time is Here

Got the autumn wreath on the front door taken down and have the tree up, but not decorated. Dave wants to see how the cats react to it before I decorate it. That will determine if they have to stay in their room all night or if they get to roam the house, something I would prefer. It's a pain trying to get all for of them in there at once, plus the mice seem to take advantage of the situation, so this year if we can, we've decided to let them stay out.

One of the things I've been thinking of is wrapping the tree with chicken wire at night so that they can't climb it or knock the ornaments off. It's something I'm still contemplating. I'll see how tonight goes first.

They knocked the tree over one year. I think that was when we started confining them to their room at night. It was also then that I realized that four cats and a tree with glass ornaments did not go together well. Unlike our last two cats, who never bothered the tree much less try to climb it, these guys loved taking the chance. I think one of them would climb it while the others egged them on, or they would all take turns. I wonder who was doing the climbing when it got knocked over. I bet they had a shocked look on their face when it happened and probably ran to hide, something they all do when they know they're going to be in trouble. Unlike the dogs, they don't kiss up.

Our old tree was one of those that you pushed the branches into a little notch-type thing, so in the morning I would also see branches knocked out, but miraculously, the ornaments would still be on it. I wonder who was responsible for that one, Patches probably. She is the smallest one of the four and the most ready to take chances like that. Maybe it stems from her being an outside cat or rather kitten longer than the other three.

We have a new tree this year, one of the pre-lit kind. I didn't want a pre-lit one, but it was the only one I could find to fit in front of our window and not stick out into the living room too much. We have a long narrow room which also has way too much furniture in it. This one fits in it perfectly. Let's just hope the cats don't like it as much as they liked the other one and leave it alone. I'm sure though that if it were up for bets in Vegas, the odds would probably be 1000 to 1. Wanna place bets?